Hi everyone! Now, i have been working on my website for a few weeks now and have come to a few road blocks. The first one was resolved by Basti (Thankyou for that! ) however i have just hit another, and this involves customising a wordpress static home page. Basically i have no idea how to do it. Any information your willing to shed on this topic would be much appreciated! Anyway, on the static home page i want a few things. Nothing seems that hard to achieve really, i just have no idea where to start. Below you will find a quick rough mock up i have done on photoshop of how i want the static home page to look. Its simple in layout and design, thankfully. The current state of my static home page is empty, all i have one it are somethings i have whipped up in the pages post to make it seem more attractive for now. The link for my website is http://filmhammer.com Im not asking you to tell me all of what i want to accomplish, just if you can, some of it. Any help to get me towards that photoshop mock up would be appreciated. If you need any more information just let me know! The only thing i don't want to here is "its not possible!". Thanks for your time.
Properbly best to edit the home.php (i think) template once your in the wp admin. I think its at appearence You would need to find the part which include the posts, that is one short tag i think, but dont know how its called, would need to see the file, before that place your code if you dont want any php in it simply make it like this Put this before the tag i mentioned above ( backup your file, you most likely need a few tries ) ?> place html here <?php // we put the above stuff before the wordpress content tag so we can use html the easy way the post Wp-tag Code (markup): for the sidebar basicly make a new div like the sidebar, give it a width, etc etc and put your html/wordpress poll code in there eg. ( put the css codes in the css , float:right; and widths etc etc ) ?> <div class="homesidebar"> first some html code here for that box with the link <?php // now we open php again, because we want to use a wordpress tag here comes the wordpress poll tag, but dont ask me which is it, should be able to find it out on wordpress or looking at the other files. No such plugin? find it on wordpress, there u should see the tag needed in install instructions ?> </div> now you can place html here again, because you closed the php tags<br /> simply write you welcome text and images here <?php // we put the above stuff before the wordpress content tag so we can use html the easy way the post Wp-tag Code (markup): I think that should work, may not be the prettiest, but iam no wordpress coder -.- So there might be better solutions
Ok, well i managed to get a column in the static home page. I used "Wp-Post-Columns" would using this restrict me in anyway?
Basti, I haven't got a home.php How would i implement a new home.php file that i create so my homepage uses the home.php instead of the pages.php or whatever it uses now? Thanks
COrrect me if I'm wrong but wouldn't it be easier to create a page and set that page as your static home page in your settings? On your newly created page you can add tables for the layout you're seeking.
Yes, that does sound easier, so far i have the separate static home page (created) and im just trying to figure out how to add the tables and layouts.
If you have a HTML editor like dreamweaver create the page in there first then copy and paste the code into your wordpress page. Just make sure you don't copy all the code, just the code in the <body> tags.